Terra Cotta
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What it does
Terra Cotta supports several kinds of automated activity, so its traffic pattern depends on the task. It may perform broad crawls to collect content or build an index, make targeted requests for specific pages, or shift between these behaviors as demand changes.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Terra Cotta
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Terra Cotta:
Allow full access
User-agent: Terra Cotta
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Terra Cotta
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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